Launching a start-up in Austria

There is a lot of help available in Austria for entrepreneurs who are planning to launch a business. A great place to start is your provincial start-up centre. These are government agencies offering free advice. They will listen to your pitch, be a "sparring partner" to look for weaknesses, encourage you in your dreams, point you in the direction of sources of finance, develop next steps with you, encourage you to work on a business model canvas and more.

All provinces have an innovation/start-up centre. Many of these offer a wide range of business advice including advice for international companies that are looking to move into Austria as well as a "welcome service" offering general advice for new immigrants. Alternatively contact Austrian Start-ups.

Links to the different start-up services

Austria

https://austrianstartups.com

Burgenland

https://wirtschaftsagentur-burgenland.at/suedhub/

(Doesn’t appear to offer a welcome service)

Carinthia

Carinthia.com: https://www.carinthia.com/en/investments-start-ups

(Doesn’t appear to offer a welcome service)

Carinthian business location and public investments:

https://www.babeg.at/en/

Lower Austria

Ecoplus International - Business Agency for NÖ: https://www.ecointernational.at

Salzburg

Innovation Salzburg: https://www.itg-salzburg.at/media/Expat-Guide-E-2021.pdf

Innovation Salzburg Welcome Service: https://www.workinsalzburg.at

Styria

SFG: https://www.sfg.at/en/found-and-research/

(Doesn’t appear to offer a welcome service)

Tirol

STARTUP.TIROL: https://www.standort-tirol.at/businesses/start-up/startuptirol?switchLocale=en_US

(Doesn’t appear to offer a welcome service)

Upper Austria

Come2UpperAustria:

https://www.come2upperaustria.com/

Business Upper Austria

https://www.biz-up.at/en/

Vienna

https://viennabusinessagency.at

Vorarlberg

Wirtschafts-Standort Vorarlberg GmbH (WISTO): https://www.wisto.at/en/home/

(Doesn’t appear to offer a welcome service)